R.e.a.d PDF Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout
Generation
By Anne Helen Petersen
An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials?the cultural shifts
that got us here, the pressures that sustain it, and the need for drastic
change Do you feel like your life is an endless to-do list? Do you find
yourself mindlessly scrolling through Instagram because you?re too
exhausted to pick up a book? Are you mired in debt, or feel like you work
all the time, or feel pressure to take whatever gives you joy and turn it
into a monetizable hustle? Welcome to burnout culture. While burnout may
seem like the default setting for the modern era, in Can?t Even, BuzzFeed
culture writer and former academic Anne Helen Petersen argues that
burnout is a definitional condition for the millennial generation, born out
of distrust in the institutions that have failed us, the unrealistic
expectations of the modern workplace, and a sharp uptick in anxiety and
hopelessness exacerbated by the constant pressure to ?perform? our
lives online. The genesis for the book is Petersen?s viral BuzzFeed
